Comparisons
Crypto Exchange Comparisons
Six named exchange head-to-heads that nothing on this site answers today. Each one is built on the same eight criteria, and every cell under them is empty until it can be filled from the exchange’s own published terms, with the date it was checked. These are the shells they will be written into.
General information only. Nothing on this page takes your objectives, financial situation or needs into account, and it is not personal financial advice. Crypto assets are volatile and you can lose money.
Where this sits
A Different Section From Our Own Comparisons, and Deliberately So
We publish two kinds of comparison and they are held to two different standards.
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We are not in these
Every page here compares two other companies. Nothing on them argues for a membership, and the pages under Comparisons, where we are one of the two sides, live somewhere else for that reason.
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A different risk to manage
A comparison of ourselves has to guard against self-interest. A comparison of two other companies has to guard against publishing something about them that is out of date or simply wrong.
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It is a buying question
Choosing where to open an account is part of getting money into the market, which is the Buying and Entry part of the curriculum, not a question about which research service to pay for.
The Six Pairs
Every one of them is routed, designed and empty. Open any of them to see the criteria and the shape the answers will land in.
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CoinSpot vs Binance
The eight criteria are set and every cell under them is empty. Nothing is claimed about either exchange yet.
Awaiting sourced detail
Open the comparison - Free
Swyftx vs Binance
Routed and designed, with nothing in the cells. The criteria are the same eight every pair in this set uses.
Awaiting sourced detail
Open the comparison - Free
Coinbase vs Binance
Eight criteria, sixteen cells, none of them filled. The page also says what a filled cell has to bring with it.
Awaiting sourced detail
Open the comparison - Free
Coinbase vs Kraken
The only pair in this set without Binance on one side. Not written yet, and built on the same eight criteria.
Awaiting sourced detail
Open the comparison - Free
Kraken vs Binance
Empty cells rather than guesses. Nothing is published about either exchange until it can be sourced and dated.
Awaiting sourced detail
Open the comparison - Free
Bybit vs Binance
Designed, routed and empty. Neither exchange named on the page has reviewed it.
Awaiting sourced detail
Open the comparison
The Standard
What Has to Be True Before Any of These Cells Gets Filled In
These pages compare two companies that did not write them. That is a higher bar than an opinion, not a lower one.
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Sourced, or empty
No fee, no listing count, no custody arrangement and no security claim goes in without a link to where it was read and the date it was read. A cell with no source stays visibly empty.
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Dated, because it expires
Fee schedules and asset listings change without notice, so every filled cell carries the date it was checked and gets rechecked. An undated figure is a wrong figure waiting to happen.
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Disclosed before published
Any commercial relationship between Collective Shift and a named exchange is stated on the page before the comparison goes live. That row sits in every table and it is the one that blocks the others.
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No winner declared
These pages set out differences. They do not rank two businesses against each other, and they do not tell you which account to open, because that depends on things a web page does not know about you.
The Exchange Guides That Are Already Written
The comparisons are not written. These are, and they are on the live site today.
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Independent Reserve Exchange - Get Started Guide
A full walkthrough of opening and funding an account on an Australian exchange, written by the research team.
Read on collectiveshift.io (opens in a new tab) - Free
Identifying Where to Buy Cryptocurrencies
How to work out which venue suits, rather than which venue is best. There is no equivalent page in this build.
Read on collectiveshift.io (opens in a new tab) - Free
Practical: How To Buy Bitcoin
The step-by-step version, from an account to a holding.
Read on collectiveshift.io (opens in a new tab) - Free
What Is A Decentralised Exchange (DEX)?
The other kind of exchange, which none of the six pairs above covers.
Read on collectiveshift.io (opens in a new tab)
Every link above opens collectiveshift.io. These guides live only on the current site and have no equivalent here yet, which makes them a cutover dependency rather than a permanent arrangement.
Looking for the CoinSpot get-started guide?
It is one of the exchange walkthroughs the research team has already published, and it is not in the four cards above because this build sends its old address to the resource library rather than to a comparison that is not written yet. The library is where it lands.
The Criteria Are Set. The Answers Are Not.
While these comparisons are being written, the free training covers the 7-step system on video.